WOODVILLE WEST TORRENS unmerger ?

[mal]

DUMBEST SANFL FOOTBALL RUMOUR OF THIS MILLENUIM
I have now heard from 2 different people that there is a possibility of WT/WDV unmerging.
We would have WOODVILLE and WEST TORRENS back again
Could be the SANFL wants to dispense with the bye and make it a 10 team comp?
This proposterous rumour surely cannot be on the agenda.
How would you split up the players to play for either entity ?


I would have thought that an 8 team comp would be more of a viability
Perhaps a merger with WA ?
Making it the WOODVILLE WEST ADELAIDE WEST TORRENS FC.
Nah that would almost be as dumb.

BUT

The 2 people who have told me are fairly reliabull !

[Hondo]

Is it 1 April

[Pseudo]

Which half would get Ronny?

[Mickyj]

Wasn't this done earlier in the year

[spell_check]

Was one of these people Sojourner?

[spell_check]

And the other ANJ?

[Sojourner]

Afraid not Spelly!

Its been talked about many times, Chris McDermott being the last media personality to make an issue of it when he suggested that Woodville could become the reserves side for the Crows.

Its hard to discuss any aspect of the merger without getting someone offside, yet I have been told by more than one West Torrens member that there was an opinion that they felt that they as a club would lose more in the merger, so the plan was to let a few years roll by then make the move back to Thebarton when the time was right and steadilly remove the Woodville imput into the club.

Fast forward 19 years on and Woodville Oval has become a stronghold of the club along with around the corner one of the most profitable / popular SANFL club venues on Port Rd.

Perhaps what I am suggesting is that there may well be some people around that would like to see the clubs de-merge, yet they would have to be pretty few in number these days, yet they could well be activley adding to this type of rumour, especially as for the first time in a long long while WWT are hitting a rough spot after having played in pretty much every finals campaign since the merger. I suppose whilst the club is winning games and playing competitively there is not a lot that really can be said in that direction.

Michealangelo Rucci was pushing a case for Whyalla to be the next club into the SANFL to make it 10 sides. I think that the growing North Eastern Suburbs whose amatuer footy clubs have waiting lists of players waiting to play for the club are a better and more likely chance of it happening, especially if the Federal Goverment funding for the development at Golden Grove - Greenwith goes ahead giving us a chance at having a venue that can be to the required standard.

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I'm sure there would have been the same talk in 1995 and 1997, one bad year is the right time to start talking apparently. Not that John Kantilaftas/Les Stevens/cd needto make an official statement about the issue (yet again), but cd probably will tell everyone that this is not on the agenda.

But there was someone who even posted this kind of thread after 2006, who was that?

[GWW]

Please happen, my side Port could do with 2 easy wins

[Ian]

Making it the WOODVILLE WEST ADELAIDE WEST TORRENS FC.

Western Eagles

[Wedgie]

Making it the WOODVILLE WEST ADELAIDE WEST TORRENS FC.

Western Eagles

I think Westies should get more of their logo incorporated into it.
Make 'em the Western Bloody Eagles.

[Ian]

[Mr66]

Please happen, my side Port could do with 2 easy wins

The way they're going it'll be their only wins.

[GWW]

Please happen, my side Port could do with 2 easy wins

The way they're going it'll be their only wins.

grrrrr you're right, but at least Westies will still be round

[MightyEagles]

Won't happen, End of Story. End Of Thread (Please).

[Tassie Blues]

would be the end of both clubs if it went through. Was this all started by westies so the wont win the spoon next year?

[Sojourner]

Still, with Doug Thomas now out of the way.......?

[brent]

I think that 9 teams is the ideal number in the current context; the 'bye' is not the worst outcome.

any less than 9 and it would be a terrible shame to see a proud sanfl club disappear or merge

any more than 9 and it would stretch the available playing stocks in S.A. too far... unless it was a non-SA side but I believe that the SANFL should remain a state/metropolitan league


Also the bays are finally playing alright so don't touch anything! Geez, i'm too terrified to change my jocks based on this run of good football

[drebin]

I think that 9 teams is the ideal number in the current context; the 'bye' is not the worst outcome.

Spot on - I think all clubs don't mind having 3 byes over the season to freshen up although the bye early in the year (Rounds 1-6?) probably doesn't fit that theory.

All the league has to do is program the matches (and byes) a little more evenly over the season. There is a good piece in an article on the nafc website about the draw this year which rings true in terms of the odd way matches are programmed in 2008 - here is what it says:

The abnormalities of the SANFL draw

Our Club would prefer Clubs to simply play each other on a far more regular basis than the 2008 program has allowed. Consider the following:

Sturt twice within ourfirst eight games
South travel to Prospect twice - May and June, before hosting a home game [Round 18]
North play Port twice at Alberton - April and June, before hosting the Magpies in late August [Round 21]

If they can fix that then a 9 team comp will be good for all.

[Mickyj]

Its hard to discuss any aspect of the merger without getting someone offside, yet I have been told by more than one West Torrens member that there was an opinion that they felt that they as a club would lose more in the merger, so the plan was to let a few years roll by then make the move back to Thebarton when the time was right and steadilly remove the Woodville imput into the club.

Sojourner I think the biggest gee for the club to move back to Thebarton would be the two council areas covered by the club.
Charles sturt (the old woodville council)Council wanted to make the club pay a huge rental fee on the ground .I think due mainly to the club winning the 2006 flag perhaps they wanted their cut of any revenue earned from the flag win.
The other being the West Torrens council with an oval etc not being used.
I think it all fell through when the Eagles signed a lease with the West Torrens council to use thebie as a training venue during summer.And Charles Sturt council decided against the increase in rent .
This is from my memory and may not all be correct .